Daughter of Thomas Johnson II and Dorcas Sedgwick and wife of Walter Hellen Sr., Esq., abt 1726-1775. He was a confirmed grandson of David Hellen I and Susanna Milton, the New World founders of the Hellen family, although which of their sons was his father remains debatable among family researchers. Mary was born on the Johnson Brewhouse property on St. Leonard Creek as were all her siblings and she and Walter appear to have married in St. Paul’s Parish in Calvert County in about 1745. Various sources note perhaps five offspring, but only one, Walter Hellen Jr., is both unquestionably confirmed and has a memorial.
The sources for her birth and death are per Johnson and Adams family records, professional research, and biographies, the Adams family related by marriage, plus Hellen family genealogical records. Colonial Families of the US, available on ancestry.com, does not always concur on these dates, nor consistently with her parentage or her marriage, and are in some cases incorrect, as drawn from SAR/DAR applications which were not vetted. The source for her middle name, Baker, as her grandmother, is from A History of Calvert County, Maryland by Charles Francis Stein, Third Edition, 1976, and is not noted elsewhere.
A tax record from 1782 for Eltonhead Hundred in Calvert County notes "Mary Hellen", as then owner of the 275 acre Hooper's Neck farm, including ten slaves, plus livestock, a significant farm for the time relative to this area. Hooper's Neck, a vast track first established by Henry Hooper, who arrived in MD in 1651, is recorded as remaining in the Hooper family until parcels of it were sold by Henry Hooper III before 1750 to Walter Hellen, James Somervell, and others. This was likely the "dwelling plantation" left to Mary where both she and Walter lived, and likely all their offspring born, other property left to other heirs.
The last official record found for Mary was the 1800 Federal census where she is noted as “Mary Hellen of Walter” in Christ Church Parish in Calvert County, MD, a year prior to her recorded death. No will nor inventory of property have been found to date.
It is assumed she was buried with her husband, possibly in a burial ground on Hooper's Neck, but Johnson and Hellen family records are mute. With the considerable land holdings it appeared Walter and other Hellens owned in the county, it is possible both were buried in another family plot, the location now unknown and lost to history.
Allan Garner
The sources for her birth and death are per Johnson and Adams family records, professional research, and biographies, the Adams family related by marriage, plus Hellen family genealogical records. Colonial Families of the US, available on ancestry.com, does not always concur on these dates, nor consistently with her parentage or her marriage, and are in some cases incorrect, as drawn from SAR/DAR applications which were not vetted. The source for her middle name, Baker, as her grandmother, is from A History of Calvert County, Maryland by Charles Francis Stein, Third Edition, 1976, and is not noted elsewhere.
A tax record from 1782 for Eltonhead Hundred in Calvert County notes "Mary Hellen", as then owner of the 275 acre Hooper's Neck farm, including ten slaves, plus livestock, a significant farm for the time relative to this area. Hooper's Neck, a vast track first established by Henry Hooper, who arrived in MD in 1651, is recorded as remaining in the Hooper family until parcels of it were sold by Henry Hooper III before 1750 to Walter Hellen, James Somervell, and others. This was likely the "dwelling plantation" left to Mary where both she and Walter lived, and likely all their offspring born, other property left to other heirs.
The last official record found for Mary was the 1800 Federal census where she is noted as “Mary Hellen of Walter” in Christ Church Parish in Calvert County, MD, a year prior to her recorded death. No will nor inventory of property have been found to date.
It is assumed she was buried with her husband, possibly in a burial ground on Hooper's Neck, but Johnson and Hellen family records are mute. With the considerable land holdings it appeared Walter and other Hellens owned in the county, it is possible both were buried in another family plot, the location now unknown and lost to history.
Allan Garner
Daughter of Thomas Johnson II and Dorcas Sedgwick and wife of Walter Hellen Sr., Esq., abt 1726-1775. He was a confirmed grandson of David Hellen I and Susanna Milton, the New World founders of the Hellen family, although which of their sons was his father remains debatable among family researchers. Mary was born on the Johnson Brewhouse property on St. Leonard Creek as were all her siblings and she and Walter appear to have married in St. Paul’s Parish in Calvert County in about 1745. Various sources note perhaps five offspring, but only one, Walter Hellen Jr., is both unquestionably confirmed and has a memorial.
The sources for her birth and death are per Johnson and Adams family records, professional research, and biographies, the Adams family related by marriage, plus Hellen family genealogical records. Colonial Families of the US, available on ancestry.com, does not always concur on these dates, nor consistently with her parentage or her marriage, and are in some cases incorrect, as drawn from SAR/DAR applications which were not vetted. The source for her middle name, Baker, as her grandmother, is from A History of Calvert County, Maryland by Charles Francis Stein, Third Edition, 1976, and is not noted elsewhere.
A tax record from 1782 for Eltonhead Hundred in Calvert County notes "Mary Hellen", as then owner of the 275 acre Hooper's Neck farm, including ten slaves, plus livestock, a significant farm for the time relative to this area. Hooper's Neck, a vast track first established by Henry Hooper, who arrived in MD in 1651, is recorded as remaining in the Hooper family until parcels of it were sold by Henry Hooper III before 1750 to Walter Hellen, James Somervell, and others. This was likely the "dwelling plantation" left to Mary where both she and Walter lived, and likely all their offspring born, other property left to other heirs.
The last official record found for Mary was the 1800 Federal census where she is noted as “Mary Hellen of Walter” in Christ Church Parish in Calvert County, MD, a year prior to her recorded death. No will nor inventory of property have been found to date.
It is assumed she was buried with her husband, possibly in a burial ground on Hooper's Neck, but Johnson and Hellen family records are mute. With the considerable land holdings it appeared Walter and other Hellens owned in the county, it is possible both were buried in another family plot, the location now unknown and lost to history.
Allan Garner
The sources for her birth and death are per Johnson and Adams family records, professional research, and biographies, the Adams family related by marriage, plus Hellen family genealogical records. Colonial Families of the US, available on ancestry.com, does not always concur on these dates, nor consistently with her parentage or her marriage, and are in some cases incorrect, as drawn from SAR/DAR applications which were not vetted. The source for her middle name, Baker, as her grandmother, is from A History of Calvert County, Maryland by Charles Francis Stein, Third Edition, 1976, and is not noted elsewhere.
A tax record from 1782 for Eltonhead Hundred in Calvert County notes "Mary Hellen", as then owner of the 275 acre Hooper's Neck farm, including ten slaves, plus livestock, a significant farm for the time relative to this area. Hooper's Neck, a vast track first established by Henry Hooper, who arrived in MD in 1651, is recorded as remaining in the Hooper family until parcels of it were sold by Henry Hooper III before 1750 to Walter Hellen, James Somervell, and others. This was likely the "dwelling plantation" left to Mary where both she and Walter lived, and likely all their offspring born, other property left to other heirs.
The last official record found for Mary was the 1800 Federal census where she is noted as “Mary Hellen of Walter” in Christ Church Parish in Calvert County, MD, a year prior to her recorded death. No will nor inventory of property have been found to date.
It is assumed she was buried with her husband, possibly in a burial ground on Hooper's Neck, but Johnson and Hellen family records are mute. With the considerable land holdings it appeared Walter and other Hellens owned in the county, it is possible both were buried in another family plot, the location now unknown and lost to history.
Allan Garner
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